August 19, 2026 — Every mature WordPress site accumulates plugins the way a garage accumulates boxes… one at a time, each for a reasonable purpose, until the whole thing is load-bearing and nobody wants to touch it. The problem is not that plugins exist. The problem is that most teams have no repeatable method for evaluating what they actually have, what is redundant, what is risky, and what can safely go. This talk walks through a practical audit playbook developed across enterprise WordPress sites with 40, 60, even 80+ active plugins. The presenter will cover how to inventory a plugin stack against actual usage rather than assumed need, how to score plugins for maintainability and risk, how to identify consolidation opportunities that reduce surface area without losing functionality, and how to sequence removals so the site stays stable throughout the process. Attendees will leave with an audit template they can run on their own sites the following week. Attendee takeaways A repeatable plugin audit method that goes beyond “”check the last updated date”” How to score plugins for real risk: maintainability, overlap, dependency depth, and data exposure A sequencing strategy for simplifying a plugin stack without breaking production Concrete examples from enterprise sites where plugin consolidation reduced maintenance cost and improved stability

July 11, 2020 — With so many image sizes the upload process can take minutes to finish, or never does! If you Google it there are probably 20 “best” plugins to fix this. I’ll explain what goes on in WordPress from upload to viewing the image on a post and cover the ways we can speed up the process.
The Pitch
I’ve taken over support for sites with as many as 45 image sizes, do you even know how many your largest sites have? For the vast majority of sites out there this is far too many, but even if you have 20 or 10 WordPress may be getting bogged down during a bulk upload, or worse your site may go down temporarily.
The Focus
I’ll show you the steps I take to identify how many images you have, what is creating them and how to begin to reduce that number or simply offload the processing. You will come away from the presentation with a broader understanding of WordPress as well as external solutions available to us.
Questions Answered
• I only use one size on our site, why does WordPress generate so many unused sizes? • How much do more advanced ways of processing images cost? • My developer tells me that… (you fill in the blank), is that right?

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